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    Extremely Low Download Speed (0.5mbps?!) ExpressVPN (LOGS!)

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      wayne622
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      Not sure how anyone actually thought that these commodity VPN providers had a sustainable business model as traffic/subscribership increased.

      Do you have any providers that would recommend?

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        bcruze
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        Not sure how anyone actually thought that these commodity VPN providers had a sustainable business model as traffic/subscribership increased.

        i understand what you are saying but they advertise only 30% decrease in speeds from your ISP.    clearly their servers are overloaded/ their encryptition level is set TOO high …  PIA servers were never as bad shockingly

        i just recently subscribed to NORDvpn.  everytime i give them a chance they ruin it, so i have requested they refund my money since i am still in the trial 30 days.

        i have the list of server names,  all i have to do is https://ipleak.net/ to find their location.  its just extremely time consuming

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          VAMike
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          @bcruze:

          @Derelict:

          Not sure how anyone actually thought that these commodity VPN providers had a sustainable business model as traffic/subscribership increased.

          i understand what you are saying but they advertise only 30% decrease in speeds from your ISP.

          I, for one, have never seen misleading advertising or inflated claims!

          The bottom line is that no VPN can avoid adding latency. Depending on what you're doing that may be a small impact or a huge impact. But, given the billions of dollars of R&D that have poured into reducing latency over the internet, it's got to have some noticeable effect. You may be willing to make that tradeoff, but be aware there is a tradeoff.

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            bcruze
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            @VAMike:

            @bcruze:

            @Derelict:

            Not sure how anyone actually thought that these commodity VPN providers had a sustainable business model as traffic/subscribership increased.

            i understand what you are saying but they advertise only 30% decrease in speeds from your ISP.

            I, for one, have never seen misleading advertising or inflated claims!

            The bottom line is that no VPN can avoid adding latency. Depending on what you're doing that may be a small impact or a huge impact. But, given the billions of dollars of R&D that have poured into reducing latency over the internet, it's got to have some noticeable effect. You may be willing to make that tradeoff, but be aware there is a tradeoff.

            i had over 15 support tickets to nordvpn in the past 2 and a half weeks.  at home and work.  whether i used my pfsense box or their proprietary software.  i could not get half of my internet speed on ANY device i used. (heck it couldn't get 1/8 of my connection)

            they refunded my money yesterday and I won't go back.  that was my 2nd time using their service,  the last time was 2 years ago so they have not improved at all.    buggy software, and servers either overloaded or misconfigured.

            just my experience at multiple locations with multiple devices

            i don't have that exact issue with PIA.    but their servers work more reliably and are faster.

            i am still looking for an alternative to PIA.  i am open to any suggestion for  Pfsense/ Openvpn use and for Apple, windows 10 use

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